[gui-talk] the BARD shufffle- Maybe I'm not so dumb, after all

[Joel Deutsch]

No, this is the straight skinny. You think I could make up something like 
that? It's not very cool, but it's reality. Believe it or not. As I say, 
they made noises a few months ago about maybe geting some programmers to fix 
that and recall the players to have them upgraded, but I ain't heard nothing 
about that and I'm sure it just ain't happening. they're gonna start 
distributing a new wave of players soon, and maybe this will be fixed on 
them. As I should have said, they consider the player thing to be in its 
beta stage, and so I'm one of the lucky few who gets to play with the device 
and answer telephone interrogations about my opinion of it. Blah blah.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] the BARD shufffle- Maybe I'm not so dumb, after all


I can't imagine only being able to store one book on a drive or they won't
play.  I'd aask on the list about that or contact  your local NLS librarian.


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:49 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] the BARD shufffle- Maybe I'm not so dumb, after all

I figured out a method (refer to my earlier post):

I of course downloaded Smart computing to a folder where I wanted it and
unzipped it. But then of course I had to put it onto that thumb drive I
stick into the NLS digital Player, and I had to clear that thumb drive of a
BARD-downloaded novel I'm in the middle of reading. Because the software of
the player can't deal with anything more complicated. Like having two books
in two folders on that thumb drive.

So herein created a second folder for the novel I'm listening to and moved
the files from my thumb drive into that folder. I kept the original
downloaded stuff, too, just in case, but in another subfolder under the
author's name. My hope is that when the time comes, if I copy the new stuff
onto the thumb drive again, the player will be able to remember where I left

off, rather than my having to navigate to that point.

And then of course I unzipped and copied the Smart Computing  files  onto
the thumb drive, and of course it's playing fine on the player.

Now I won't find out until later whether my updated cluster of files for
that novel, if I copy them to the thumb drive, will clue in the player's
firmware as to where I left off listening, but everything is backed up, as
we say, so it's a worthy experiment.

Ah, the gymnastics. They really should have made that download/player deal a

little more sophisticated and flexible, in terms of programming. Even just a

little. Oh, well.


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